Buying from a regular gun store

[636]

If one were to buy something that is considered C&R from their local shop would they still need to log it into their bound book?

[ccandgc]

yup.

[savasyn]

Yes, you still have to log anything that is considered C&R. As I learned not too long ago, accept the concept that you ARE licensed, you don't USE your license. In other words, any transactions that fall under the C&R category should be logged while licensed.

Better to have more info than less in case of an audit.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

Hmmm... Are you guys sure on this one? The woman at the ATF who handles the C&R questions told me that I only needed to log in items bought on my license. If I get it at a gun store and go through the regular process with the DROS and 10 day wait, they are not bought using my license, therefore don't need to logged in. And the local PD and the gunsmith who is SD county's resident expert for the PD court cases both agree that you don't need to log in guns that you don't buy on your license.
-Mb

[762cavalier]

GTMB- Yes we are sure. Remember as Savasyn said. you don't USE your license. you ARE licensed. Your bound book is a record of all C&R firearms acquired while you are licensed.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

Hmmm... Are you guys sure on this one?

Here is what the Code of Federal Regulations says about it...

each receipt and disposition of firearms curios or relics. The record required by this paragraph shall be maintained in bound form under the format prescribed below. The purchase or other acquisition of a curio or relic shall, except as provided in paragraph (g) of this section, be recorded not later than the close of the next business day following the date of such purchase or other acquisition...

[NRAhighpowershooter]

ALSO...if you receive a C&R rifle form the CMP you still log it in even though you didn't your C&R to aquire it.......

[ke6guj]

And if you sell a pre-owned C&R firearm from before you were licensed, you should enter into the bound book as "pre-licensed inventory" or something to that effect, and then log it out to the buyer.

Basically, ATF has issued opinion letters all over the map on if pre-licensed firearms need to logged if sold, and if buying a C&R "without using your license". But the basic consensus seems to be that it is safer to "over log" your bound book, than to "under log" your bound book.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

Ok. This is a better safe than sorry thing. I can deal with that.